The Oxygen Network took its first foray into food programming last night, with the premiere of Naughty Kitchen With Chef Blythe Beck. The show is a slice-of-life take on Beck and the various hijinx that go down with her staff of 60 at Dallas hotel-restaurant Central 214. (If this sounds a little familiar, that's because the show comes from the production company Authentic Entertainment, the force behind Flipping Out and Ace of Cakes.)

The hook here is Beck: an oversized lady with an oversized personality and a personal quest for "Total World Culinary Domination." Her customers can't help but be charmed when she works the room, and the staff seems almost religiously devoted to her. Beck's gimmick is making "naughty" food. That's not a sex thing, it's an indulgence thing: she explains, "My sexy new American cuisine is made with beer and bacon and cream and cheese and lots of heart, and when you eat my food, you're not being bad, you're just being naughty." The problem is that on her show, the food almost seems besides the point.